NEVER DIM YOUR LIGHT

Susan was the brightest girl in school. She always won all the awards on  prizegiving day. Not only was she academically bright but  she also had a gift for music. She had a rival called Agnes who wasnt happy about Susan's constant winning of awards. Agnes started to bully her. 

When someone believes that your presence diminishes their light, you may encounter negative emotions from that person including envy, indifference and sometimes bullying.  Anytime someone puts you down, whether upfront or through sarcasm, it’s coming from somewhere. It’s a defense mechanism of how their deal with their insecurity.

INSECURITY

Susan became inadequate and stopped working hard at school because the effect of bullying was taking its toll. Agnes was very happy that Susan was ''shrinking'' and so were many other girls in the class. If you are dealing with a person that has to be the shiniest object in the world, the only person that can be gifted, the only person who can have talents, the only person who can give value to the world, you are dealing with a person who doesn’t believe that the sky is really big enough for ALL of us.

YOUR GIFTS WILL MAKE ROOM FOR YOU

Eventually Susan's mum noticed her fall in grades and had a mother and daughter chat with her. She said, ''There is plenty of space on the planet for everyone’s light to shine. But unfortunately some people don’t understand this and will respond negatively to you, simply because you are showing your light. They cant take it because they think your light takes away from theirs. Just because you are giving your all: Your light, your loving spirit, your confidence, and your energy, it is an irritant to some people and any attempt to spread your light in their space is received with utter disgust''. 

Some of us react wrongly to this behaviour  like Susan did and end up dimming our light just because we do not want to offend or we try to be nicer to the bully hoping that they will like us. But that’s wrong thinking.

THINK ABOUT A CHRISTMAS TREE

Susan listened to her mother and her grades went back to being first class. Agnes just had to deal with it and when she realized that Susan was no longer affected by her bullying, she left her alone. In fact the school were told about the incident and all the girls were given a lecture on Bullying and on Building Confidence.

Lets look at this analogy. All the lights on a Christmas look beautiful, dont they? They ALL give the Christmas tree that extra sparkle because they are ALL shining. Imagine if you took most of the lights off the Christmas! Imagine how bare the Christmas tree would be! That’s how we should view everyone’s light. We can all be a LIGHT to the world. It’s a better way to live and view the light of others.

That’s my view. What do you think? Do you agree or do you have a different perspective? Please leave a comment. Thanks for stopping by and never stop shining your light.

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RiRi is a dedicated Events planner, personal development trainer and speaker who is passionate about serving clients at Majestically Rare to the highest standards. Only the best will do. She is also the founder of Raising Confident Girls Initiative with a clear vision: A world where every girl is confident.